by Talking Humanities | Dec 27, 2018 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, From the Archives, History & Classics, Research & Resources
In September 2018, the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) launched Layers of London – a new website that enables the mapping and sharing of London’s history through community participation. The project is now engaging thousands of Londoners from across the city’s...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 10, 2018 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
In the second of a series of scholarly articles marking the 2018 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London Dr Mandy Banton, senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS), explore how the organisation can harness immense power for...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 6, 2018 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
At the height of the Ethiopian famine – the worst to hit the country in a century – the British government pondered whether it should assist in the overthrow of the military regime that was ruling in Addis Ababa. Below, Martin Plaut, senior research fellow at the...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 13, 2016 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, History & Classics, Ministry of Information Digital, Politics & Law, Projects, Research & Resources
Image: © IWM (D 650A) Katherine Howells, a doctoral candidate at King’s College London, provides an overview of the ‘Publishing and Communications History of the Ministry of Information, 1939-45’ project being undertaken by the Institute of English Studies (IES) in...
